Work-In-Progress: Connections – First-Year Design, Students, and Life Beyond Engineering
Michael Rizk
Abstract:This Work In Progress paper describes an effort to support first-year engineering students by connecting them with other students and providing a space to discuss the relationship between their first-year design course and life beyond the course. The engineering design course allows students to work on a real-world project and exposes them to a broad range of ideas and skills that are important in engineering. Many of thesesuch as communication, planning, teamwork, prioritization, and dealing with failureare a… Show more
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